AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, 15 APRIL 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

  - Cardinal Ivan Dias, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples.

and six prelates from the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (North II Region), on their ad limina visit:

  - Bishop Alberto Taveira Correa, archbishop of Belem do Para.

  - Bishop Luigi Ferrando of Braganca do Para.

  - Bishop Carlo Verzeletti of Castanhal.

  - Bishop Pedro Jose Conti of Macapa.

  - Bishop Jose Foralosso, S.D.B., of Maraba.

  -Bishop Esmeraldo Barreto de Faria of Santarem.
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